By Staff
January 28th, 2025
BURLINGTON, ON
He did it.
Can he be re-elected?
Premier Doug Ford today confirmed that the Honourable Edith Dumont, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, has accepted the premier’s advice to sign a proclamation dissolving the 43rd Parliament of the Province of Ontario, effective as of 4:00 p.m. today.
Pursuant to the provisions of the Election Act, the Lieutenant Governor also called for the issuance of writs for the general election to be issued January 29, 2025, and named February 27, 2025, as the date of Ontario’s next general election.
The decision has the potential to do to Ford was the electorate did to David Peterson in 1990 when he called an early election and lost to Bob Rae – and we all know what that did to Ontario.
The 1990 Ontario general election was held on September 6, 1990, to elect members of the 35th Legislative Assembly of the province of Ontario, Canada. The governing Ontario Liberal Party led by Premier David Peterson was unexpectedly defeated.
Pray for a Peterson repeat. Let’s dump Ford.
The headline is not correct. The legislature will be dissolved as of 4:00 p.m. today. But as with the proroging of the House of Commons, both governments continue to operate in their current forms until either the HoC is recalled or in both cases elections are held and decided.
Editor’s note: Of course the government continues to exist and run daily operations. It is the Legislature that has shut down.